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In late November, Jan left her home in Denver to travel to Dallas—where she found herself cleaning out her cousin Yaacub’s fridge. It had been more than six weeks he’d been to his apartment, and the place needed tending to.
It was a holiday weekend, but “we’re not even celebrating,” Jan said. Instead, she was “cleaning things up since it has been close to a month and a half that he’s been gone.”
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